Brandon assigns responsibility to a subordinate for preparing a sales presentation for an important potential client and authorizes the necessary expenditures of money and human resources, but he still requires a dress rehearsal to be presented to him before the actual presentation. Brandon realizes that accountability cannot be

Brandon assigns responsibility to a subordinate for preparing a sales presentation for an important potential client and authorizes the necessary expenditures of money and human resources, but he still requires a dress rehearsal to be presented to him before the actual presentation. Brandon realizes that accountability cannot be delegated.

delegated.

Explanation:

In business, to delegate means to authorize someone else to make a decision or take action on behalf of you.  

Authority can be delegated, but the responsibility and accountability for the decisions made or actions taken cannot be. By delegating authority, power is passed downward, but both the subordinate that makes the decision and the manager that empowered the subordinate are responsible for the consequences.

Generally when things turn out right, managers take most of the credit, but if things go wrong, most of the blame falls on the subordinate.